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Born in South Africa, Vance grew up in Houston, Texas and attended Saint John"s School.
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His most well known book, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future was released on May 19, 2015. He now works in Mountain View, California. Vance is primarily known for writing for The Register from March 2003 to August 2008, but moved to the New York Times in September 2008 and then to Bloomberg BusinessWeek in January 2011.
Vance covered companies such as International Business Machines Corporation, Himachal Pradesh, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.
In 2007 Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of the Silicon Valley. In 2015 he published a biography of Elon Musk His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, Cable News Network.com, the Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications.
Vance hosts an audio podcast called Semi-Coherent Computing, in which he discusses enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade servers, and interviews notable guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun Microsystems, and Bell laboratories
